8 Keywords: Forums, Collaboration, Collaborative Writing, Sharing, Threads, Blackboard, Moodle, Subject Lines

"As I said before if people also talk all at the same time I cannot cope so when we are doing group work I have found more recently that using the forums has been a good way of collaborating. They are also useful for making appointments and posting the sections of writing that needed to share. But it is really important that the threads keep to the topic and people do not keep adding new threads willy nilly! If every time you go on people add say 20 new threads it is so hard to keep organised if only they would keep to topic."

I have joined the Audiology Resources forum which is easy to use. I would like people to make the layout as logical and as simple as possible. Then you should find what you are looking for without any trouble.

The MSDN Blog has a comment with some examples on poor subject lines such as:

• New question
• Help needed
• Any help will be most appreciated
• A tough problem!
• Request for information - URGENT!!
• URGENT URGENT URGENT

They go on to say "Remember, choose a subject line that is meaningful to the person you're sending it to."